diff --git a/installation.rst b/installation.rst
index 63cbdfc..88dc004 100644
--- a/installation.rst
+++ b/installation.rst
@@ -8,11 +8,37 @@ Installation
 
    $ wget -O - https://deb.entrouvert.org/entrouvert.gpg | apt-key add -
    $ echo deb http://deb.entrouvert.org/ buster main >> /etc/apt/sources.list
+   $ apt update
 
-2. Install the package::
+2. Create the database::
+
+   $ apt install apg
+   $ PASSWORD=$(apg -n 1 -M NCL -m 20)
+   $ apt install postgresql
+   $ su - postgres -c psql <<EOF
+   CREATE ROLE authentic2 WITH LOGIN SUPERUSER PASSWORD '$PASSWORD';
+   ALTER ROLE authentic2 SET client_encoding TO 'utf8';
+   CREATE DATABASE authentic2;
+   GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON DATABASE authentic2 TO authentic2;
+   EOF
+   $ mkdir -p /etc/authentic2/settings.d
+   $ cat > /etc/authentic2/settings.d/database.py <<EOF
+   DATABASES = {
+      "default": {
+        "ENGINE": "django.db.backends.postgresql",
+        "NAME": "authentic2",
+        "USER": "authentic2",
+        "PASSWORD": "$PASSWORD",
+        "HOST": "127.0.0.1",
+        "PORT": "5432",
+      }
+   }
+   EOF
+
+3. Install::
+
+   $ apt install authentic2
 
-   $ apt-get install authentic2
-   
 .. note::
 
    The Debian GNU/Linux packages published at https://deb.entrouvert.org/ follow the `release cycle of Publik <https://dev.entrouvert.org/projects/publik/wiki/Cycle_de_mises_%C3%A0_jour>`__.